

pop collaboration with Calvin Harris, for those aching for a new “We Found Love”-style song from Rihanna. There was “This Is What You Came For,” an E.D.M. 1-and, if there was any complaint from the singer’s fan base about the disc, it was that it was not necessarily filled with the radio singles that they had been accustomed to from Rihanna.Īs if addressing that concern specifically, Rihanna has-since Anti’s release-now been a part of four separate summer singles, each embodying a different, familiar mode for the singer. Anti was a more languid, contemplative, mid-tempo offering from Rihanna-save for its most energetic track, “Work,” which spent nine weeks at No. After putting out her 2012 album, Unapologetic, Rih took some time before releasing her follow-up, not dropping Anti-what would be her eighth album-until 2016. ” - Gene Roddenberry excerpt from February 12,1965 letter to Mr.After several years of relative dormancy-her fans in a desperate state, despondent and confused, waiting for new music- Rihanna is now delivering new material in spades.


And do everything possible to move on into another medium. with the children and have two days at home out of every seven to play horseshoes and putter in the garden. Rihanna continues her reign as the most prolific pop star working today with Sledgehammer, her latest summer single featured on the soundtrack for Star Trek Beyond. On the other hand, without that proof, I intend to aim for safe copies and parallels of existing successes - settle for doing it just two or three percent better than the next guy so that job and profits are always there, and I eat dinner every night at 6:00 p.m. It has been and can be very good - and if someone proves to me they want me to try for that level, I gladly will. “… For the first time I think I see our particular and peculiar medium exactly for what it is. Yep, the same season that produced the first “Paramount” STAR TREK that forced Gene to execute the “safe copies and parallels” option he said he would in this1965 letter: Overall, it’s a visually stunning music video for the eerie and intriguing “Sledgehammer”. The end of the video shows off some gorgeous shots of the Enterprise in space. When Rihanna sings, “And, I will rise up from the ashes now…” the rocks and dust around her seem to rise in the air bending to her will. The whole video is very science fiction, with fantastical images of planets, space ships, and even a bit of magic. Rihanna starts singing, “I hit a wall…”Īs the music swells, thousands of tiny ships fly through the sky, and we see the space station Yorktown in the background. The camera zooms into a planet where we see a desert scene and a woman standing in flowing orange robes. We then see a flash reminiscent of the TMP-inspired Beyond poster as the Enterprise warps into view.

The video begins by flying through space – planets and nebulae appearing as lighting strikes mark beats in the music. Now see the music video, just released today. You’ve seen the latest trailer and heard Rihanna’s Star Trek Beyond inspired track “Sledgehammer”.
